Safarbiy Napso's sentence has been reduced

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The Court of Appeal replaced the four-year prison sentence of Safarbiy Napso, former director of the Dagomys Road Repair and Construction Department, with a suspended sentence due to compensation for damages.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," at the end of October last year, a court in Sochi sentenced Safarbiy Napso, former director of the Dagomys Road Repair and Construction Department, to four years in prison, finding him guilty of embezzlement of the company's property. The convicted man is the cousin of former Russian State Duma deputy Yuri Napso.

The court upheld the prosecutor's appeal and mitigated the sentence of Safarbiy Napso, former director of the Dagomys Road Repair and Construction Department, Kommersant reported on February 2, citing the unified press service of the courts of Krasnodar Krai.

The four-year prison term was replaced with a suspended sentence. In reaching its decision, the court took into account Napso's pre-trial cooperation agreement, his assistance in solving the crime, and his compensation for damages.

As a reminder, at the end of May, the court upheld the decision of State Duma deputies who voted to strip Yuri Napso of his parliamentary powers early. His representative claimed that Napso was stripped of his mandate due to an incorrect count of absenteeism. On October 8, it was announced that the Sochi Central District Court upheld the prosecutor's office's claim and seized in favor of the state approximately 60 properties, which, according to the court, belong to Yuri Napso or his relatives. This decision has been appealed to a higher court, Napso's lawyer said.